During my senior year of high school, I completed a STEM Senior Capstone project, which aimed to reinvent the curriculum for how Arduino is typically taught by guiding students through building a remote controlled car. At the end of the project, we were assigned to make a video recapping the project. I scripted, filmed, and edited it all myself, in my room. I chose to lean into a kind of scrappy, imperfect feel for two reasons: one, because the project itself is kind of scrappy and imperfect, and two, because I felt it would make a more engaging and genuine video. Too much polish on this particular project and I felt like the video would get boring fast, but keeping things interesting with goofy little animations and such kept it fun. This idea definitely doesn’t work for all videos, but I think it did here.